gRPC / gRPC and microservices

Building, scalable real-time applications that can communicate with multiple platforms is a tricky proposition with many hard problems: device network performance, real-time bidirectional communication, scalable infrastructure, and distributed systems.

By leveraging open source libraries such as Docker, Kubernetes and gRPC, we can mitigate these issues to quickly build a scalable, real time experience.

During this talk, we will look at how gRPC can be used as a performant real-time communication framework that works across platforms and languages like Go, Node.js and Java. We combine this with Kubernetes’ ability to orchestrate containers at scale to handle all of these devices.
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Mark Mandel - Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform

Mark Mandel is a Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform and one half of the Google Cloud Platform Podcast. Hailing from Australia, Mark built his career developing backend systems for over 15 years and authoring and contributing to several widely adopted open source projects. When he’s not building infrastructure in the cloud, he’s constantly looking for new and interesting things he can do with Docker containers, playing with his dog and reading too much fantasy literature.

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Back in 2015, Square and Google collaborated to launch gRPC, an open source RPC framework backed by protocol buffers and HTTP/2, based on real-world experiences operating microservices at scale. If you build microservices, you will be interested in gRPC.

This talk will cover:

- a technical overview of gRPC
- use cases and applicability in your stack
- a deep dive into the practicalities of operationalizing gRPC
- Square’s experience moving from a proprietary RPC framework to gRPC

Download the slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/apigee/grpc-the-story-of-microservices-at-square-59995024

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/gdglviv/mandy-waite-scalable-microservices-with-grpc-kubernetes-and-containers

Microservices and Containers are a great mix, but if you want to get serious about using them together then you need to start shopping for a Cluster Management and Container Orchestration Platform. It just so happens there's already an extremely popular, Open Source, Cross Cloud Platform called Kubernetes. You'll also need something to wire them together, maybe something that offers high performance RPCs, but also provides a toolset to generate services and clients in multiple languages. gRPC is a language and platform-neutral RPC framework, based on HTTP/2 and Protobuf, used to build highly performant and scalable APIs.

In this talk, we’ll demo the core concepts of gRPC and Kubernetes, and show you how to combine these two technologies to create scalable and performant microservices rooted in lessons learned from Google’s experience!

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Video recorded on GDG DevFest 2015 - the biggest Google tech conference in Ukraine carefully crafted for you by GDG community! All about Android, Web and Cloud from the world experts.

Learn more at http://devfest.gdg.org.ua/

Sandeep Dinesh (@sandeepdinesh) gives an overview on how you can use Kubernetes and gRPC to build a scalable microservices architecture.

Learn more about these two open source projects, and watch a live demo!

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/thesandlord/building-scalable-microservices-with-kubernetes-grpc-and-containers-api-world-2015
Code: https://github.com/thesandlord/samples/tree/master/grpc-kubernetes-microservices